Egg-grip.



W.M.BROWN.

EGG GRIP.

APPLICATON FILED MAR.1. 1910. RENEWED JUNE 11.1915. 7

1,156,459. Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH co., WASHINGTON D c WILLIAM r nown, or N WA K, i nvriERsEYQ EGG-GRIP.

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Y Application filed March 1,1910, Serial no, 546,670. Renewed June 11, 1915.

To all-whom, it may concern Be it known that I, WVILLIAM M. BnowN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Grips, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Thisinvention hasreference, generally, to improvements in egg grips and. egg holders;

and the invention relates, more particularly,

to a novel device for picking up and gripping hoteggs, the device being equally adapted foruseas an egg cup, or a napkin ring or holder. 7 3 I The presentinvention, therefore, has for its principal objects to provide a novel, a neat and simply constructed, as wellas an. ornate device ormplement, which can be readily used for picking up hot eggs, and by means of the device, positively gripping the egg and holding ,itnin thedevice, so as to enable a person to readily break theshell of theegg, and the egg eaten from the device; or, the device being used to hold the while feeding theegg-contentsto a child or sick person The invention has for its further object to provide a device for gripping hot eggs from a surface, such as akplate, saucer, table, or the like, the device beingmade from a single piece of metal, or other suitable material, having great resiliency, .so that when ancopen end-portion of the device is slipped over the end-portion of an egg, the

device becomes self-acting or automatic in gripping the egg, and without any further manual manipulation positively holds the egg against any accidental displacement from the egg g'ip. v

A further object of this invention isto provide a novel device which can be used as an egg grip,-an egg cup, ora napkin ring, and in WlllChtllGlG are no assembled parts forming hinged joints which can readily get out of order and which are dif- I ficult to keep clean, and for that reason are unsanitary. c

Other objects of this invention not at this time more particularly enumerated will be Specification of Letters Patent. I

llatentedffict. 12, 191 5.

Serial No. 33,626.

clearly understood from the detailed description of my present invention.

lVith the various objects of the present invention in view, the said invention consists, primarilyyinfthe novel egg grip, as well as in the. peculiar arrangement and con- I structionof the parts thereof, all of which willbemore fullyset forth in the following specificationand then finally embodied in the clauses of the claims which are ape pended to and which form an essential part of thisspecification. The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figurel is a pictorial representation of an egg grip. made according to "and embodyingthe principles of the presentinvention, an egg and a hand,,showing the first step in the operation of picking up a hot-egg; and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same parts, show ng thepositionsof the egg, theegg grip, and the hand in push: ing or forcing the egg grip into its final gripping relation with theegg. Fig. 3is

a verticalsectionalrepresentation of an egg.

grip, showing in connection therewith'and I in elevation an egg gripped or retainedin the smaller end-portion of the deviceyand Figa is a horizontal section of the-,egg grip, said section. being taken on line H ing great resiliency, the said piece of metal or other material used being made in, the

form of ,a tubular body formed with a contracted part2 and the substantially out: wardly flaring end-portions or members 3 and. 4:- The margin-aledge-portions 5, 61,

7 and'S may befofany desirableconfigura-f tion, as will be clearly evident, and thepiece of spring-metal or other suitable resilient material of which; thedevice is made, being of such tubularconforination, so that a longitudinally extending open space, as 9, will shaped device is produced, having oppositely located open end portions, said open in said Fig. 3, with the representation of the I be provided. In this manner, an open cup 1 is held in the hand.

In its use of the device it is not necessary end-portion forming suitable gripping or:

clamping members, either one of which may be employed in'the'manner to be presently set forth for the picking up and'g'ripping of an eg In Figs 1 and 2,0f the drawings, I have shown one manner of slipping or forcing one of these open-end gripping or-clamping members over the'end portion and upon a hot egg, the spring-like action or resiliency of the split portionsof thesaid gripping or 'clamping'imember being such that the egg can be readilyand quickly lifted from a dish or the table without handling the hot egg, and the egg being positively gripped so that it can not be accidentally displaced or fall from the gripping or clamping member, no matter in what position theegg grip .to touch the eggwith the hand, so that eggs can be served extremely hot. Furthermore, the inner and contracted curved surfaceportions of the device form a sui'table seat upon which portions of the egg rest so that a portion of the egg will extend beyond the marginalend portion of the gripping or clamping member, and that a great portion of the shell of the gripped egg can be reached,"'for the purpose of breaking it away, and for the removal of the meat of the egg, as will be clearly evident. Further- 7 more, the marginal end edges of the device are such that when a gripped egg is picked up, one end of the device can be placed upon the table, thus enabling the device to be used in the manner of an egg cup, for eating r the meat of the egg directly out of the shell,

or clamping member which has this advantage that the egggrip is easily adapted for gripping and picking up both small and large eggs.

Ordinarily,1when the deviceis to be used in the manner of the usual egg cup, the-egg is preferably gripped by the short clamping or gripping'meinber, as clearly shown in Fig; 3 of the drawings, so as to eXpos-eto the action of breaking the shell, a large portion of the egg; but, when the device is to the hot egg,

be used for spooning the meat of the egg to a sick person, or when it is desired to break the egg into'a cup, plate, or similar article, such as is used in table-service, then it is preferable to grip the egg by means of the long clamping or gripping member, in the mannerindicated in said Figs. '1 and 2 of the drawings. In either case it is unnecessary to handle or touch the hotegg' with the fingers, and while the device is admirably adapted for carrying and lifting about without the leastdanger of its falling from the egg grip, it can be set upon and the egg, eaten-from it, or the devicecan be used merely as an egg lifter and holder and held over a glass, bowl, or the like, and

the egg emptied into it, so that in no case is there any inconvenience from the heat of the egg.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, an G -QIlP made of a single piece element having resiliency and made in the form of a tubularbody open at both ends, said ends providing egg receiving' and gripping openings, said body having a contracted part,

said part formin oppositely disposed seats,

and the said body being made with a longitudinally extending. open part to permit "either end so as to be used as an egg cup,

spreading of either of the said end-portions of'the body when the opposite open" endportion is contracted, so as to receive and grip an egg, substantially as and for the;-

purposes set forth. I V V 2. As a new article, of manufacture, an

egg-grip made of a single-piece element having resiliency and made in the form of a In testimony,

this28th day of February, 1910.-

\VILLIAIHM. BROWN.

; Witnesses FREDK, C. FaAnN'rZnL, I FREDK. vH. W. FRAENTZEL.

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' Washington, D. C. l r a that I claim theinvention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand 

